Re: Re: [mail] Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Attributes support proposal

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Duncan McIntyre wrote: > On Wednesday 27 April 2005 2:19 pm, Zeev Suraski wrote: > > At 16:58 27/04/2005, Duncan McIntyre wrote: > > >I remember similar arguments being made about most of the new OO features > > >in PHP5. > > > > > >Out of interest, how is this more bloated than storing doc comments in > > > memory? > > > > It's feature bloat, not memory consumption bloat. Adding obscure operators > > is the worst thing to do, since it reduces readability and complicates the > > language. Comments can be ignored, removed, be completely 'broken', etc. - > > you can use them if you understand them and they're useful to you, but > > you'll never get a piece of code which you wouldn't understand because of > > the comment. Not so with features such as attributes. > > > How about adding a new keyword instead, if you don't like @[..]? > Say, attributes(..) or metadata(..) or something we can all agree on? It's not the way how it's written down, it's the whole concept. Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org